1 Maccabees 6:3-5

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³ So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not because his plan had become known to the citizens,^{(A) 4} and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and in great disappointment left there to return to Babylon.

⁵ Then someone came to him in Persia and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;^(B)